Beer-cooler.



G. BIEGER.

BEER COOLER.

APPLICATION FILED 001.27, 1011.

1,088,763. Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

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CHARLES BIEGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BEER-COOLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Application filed October 27, 1911. Serial No. 657,170.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES Bureau, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beer-Coolers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cooling devices adapted for cooling beer and other liquids and aims to produce a cooler in which the cooling coils will be located at the sides of the ice box instead of in the center thereof to prevent injury to the coils and also to permit ice to be introduced into the box and to settle therein upon melti'ng.

The invention will be best understood from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment thereof.

On the drawings-Figure 1 is a transverse sectional view through a cooler embodying my invention, this view being taken substantially on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

On the drawings, 5 designates generally an ice box of usual construction adapted to contain ice for cooling the beer contained in th cooling coils located therein. The box is preferably provided with a top 6 equipped with a drain board 7 and the usual trough or drip pan 8 is mounted on the front of the box.

The beer coolers which have been employed prior to my present invention have customarily been equipped with cylindrical spiral cooling coils resting upon the bottom of the box and extending upwardly through the center of the box. These coils, by reason of their shape and position, were very apt to become crushed and broken upon introduction of the ice into the box and, furthermore, they occupied considerable space in the box and prevented the ice from settling as it melted. In my present invention I aim to leave an unobstructed space in the center of the box for the reception of ice and to this end I have provided coils 9 formed from looped pipes coiled upon themselves to form flat cooling coils adapted to be positioned on edge against the walls of the ice box so as to occupy a minimum amount of space. A greaterlength of pipe can be employed in coils of this character than would be possible in the old type of cylindrical spiral coils, consequently a greater cooling efi'ect is produced than could be effected in shorter coils. Each of the co ls is connected by a suitable coupling 10 with a pipe 11 leading from the beer supply and the discharge end of each coil is connected with the usual tap or faucet 12. As many coils may be employed in a single cooler as there are taps or faucets from which the beer is to be drawn. The coils may be arranged on the front and back walls as shown in the drawings and also on the end walls, if desired, and they are held in position by bars 13 extending across their inner faces adjacent their tops and held in place by screw-bolts 14. The bars 13 are preferably spaced outwardly from the coils as shown in Fig. 2 in order to be in position to prevent damage to the coils by the insertion of large pieces of ice within the cooler.

Suitable drain pipe 15 are connected with the bottom of the ice box through which any water formed by the melting ice may be discharged and through which steam or hot water may be admitted to the box for cleaning the same, if desired. These pipes are equipped with the ordinary shutvalves 16 controlled by operating wheels From the foregoing it will be understood that the cooling coils contain the maximum length of pipe that can be placed in a given space and that by reason of the location of the coils flat, against the walls of the ice box an unobstructed space for the reception of ice is left in the center of the box. By reason of the position and location of the coils the ice is not supported upon them and it is not necessary to provide any protector to prevent them from being distorted and crushed. The coils may be readily removed when occasion requires by simply disconnecting them from the faucets and the supply pipes and loosening the bolts 14: to permit the removal of the securing bars 13. It will be apparent that the bars 13 serve materially to protect the coils from damage of the ice, particularly when the ice is first placed in the cooler.

While I have shown and described a pre ferred embodiment of my invention it will be obvious that various mechanical changes in the size, shape, proportion and construction of the various parts may be resorted to without sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention or departing from the spirit thereof.

I claim:

1. A beer cooler comprising an ice box having a fiat vertical Wall, a cooling coil consisting of a looped pipe coilednpon itself and arranged fiat agains t said Wall in a single vertical plane connections for con; necting said pipe with a delivery fancetand a, sonrce of supply; a fiat bafr'ari -anged across the face of said coil adjacent itstop, and a bolt disposed. throiigh tlii ngli the d eeingimhe coil and through said vei tic'al ivall for holding the bar in operative position, ivhereb'y the said hair 'serve's' to vent displacement of the coil and to protect said coil froni large cakes of ice when they are positioned in the cooler. I

2. A beer cooler comprising afi ice box having a fiat vertical Wall, cooling coil consisting of a looped pipe coiled upon itself a :nc larrangedflat against said Wall in- I a single vertical plane, connections for connecting said pipe with a delivery faucet and a source of supply, a fiat bar arranged across the face of said coil adjacent its, topgi the inner face of sa-id bar being spaced from said vertical Wall a distance greater than the thickness of said co il and a looltdisposed through said he th'iongh i in tl 1e' and through said erticalavall for hfolding the. bar in operative po tion ivlifereby the said s yes to prevent Clisplaceinfent of the coil and toprotect s 'd coil from large cakes ice when they are posi- 35 tioned in the cooler. 1 p 1 V i, CHARLES BIEGER,

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